marisol diaz

marisol diaz is a mixed-media visual artist whose work explores diasporic identity, material transformation, and the layered complexities of feminine hybridity. Drawing from her Taíno Arawak Puerto Rican heritage, Diaz engages painting, sculpture, and experimental processes to investigate how cultural memory, material science, and personal mythology intersect within contemporary life.

Originally trained as a glassblower, her practice remains deeply rooted in an understanding of material behavior and process. This sensitivity to materiality informs her interdisciplinary approach, where surfaces, substances, and symbolic forms become vehicles for examining inheritance, embodiment, and the shifting boundaries between personal and collective histories.

Diaz is a graduate of New York City’s High School of Art & Design. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Sculpture from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and her Master of Fine Arts from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

She lives and works in Nyack, New York with her partner, artist Bill Batson, and their two dogs, Chica and Zemi.

To learn more about marisol:
amarettogirl.com
@amarettogirl